JOHANNESBURG, Dec 22 2019 A security contractor was killed on Friday in an attempted armed robbery on a Harmony Gold plant west of Johannesburg, the latest fatal incident at a mining company in South Africa. High gold prices are making processing plants a target for criminals in South Africa, leading to a spate of armed robberies […]
MOSCOW RUSSIA December 22 2019 An unidentified gunman opened fire Thursday outside the Moscow headquarters of Russia’s top security agency, killing one officer and wounding five others, officials said. The Federal Security Service, or FSB, said the assailant was acting alone and didn’t enter its building. Earlier, it said the assailant had been “neutralized” — a […]
London England December 18 2019 An airport security worker is among three people charged in connection with an attempt to smuggle cocaine worth more than £2 million into the UK via Heathrow airport. Packages of cocaine was found by National Crime Agency officers, supported by Border Force, who made the three arrests on Saturday 14 December. […]
West Midlands England December 16 2019 Two security guards were rushed to hospital after a hammer-wielding thug launched attacked them outside a supermarket. Eyewitnesses told Black Country Live that shoppers fled in terror as the man, who has not been caught, launched his attack on the cash-in-transit guards outside Tesco Express in High Road, Willenhall. […]
Winnipeg Canada December 14 219 A Winnipeg man has been charged with a string of recent bank robberies after a security guard and customer were able to wrestle a suspect to the ground during a robbery this week. Police say the armed suspect, who had concealed his identity, walked into the bank in the 600 block […]
ST ANDREW, Jamaica Dec13 2019 — A security guard was shot dead by unknown assailants in Stony Hill, St Andrew yesterday, the police have reported. Dead is 33-year-old Albert Joseph, otherwise called ‘Cho Cho’, of Old Golden Spring Road in the parish. Reports are that residents heard explosions about 7:35 pm and summoned the police. On the arrival […]
Nottinghamshire England December 12 2019 Nottinghamshire Police were called at around 1.30 pm on 9 December 2019 following reports of a theft from Goldsmiths in Victoria Street, Nottingham. A Rolex watch was stolen. A security guard was attacked but did still manage to give chase. Both men were described as black, very well dressed, […]
Vancouver Canada December 12 2019 Three people have been arrested in two shoplifting incidents in which security guards were threatened with weapons. The first case took place Dec. 6 around noon, when a man was spotted allegedly stealing alcohol from a B.C. Liquor Store on Commercial Drive. A security guard arrested the man and put […]
Vancouver Canada December 9 2019 A Vancouver police officer was assaulted Thursday while trying to arrest a man who was allegedly masturbating on a bus. Just after 6 p.m. Thursday, Vancouver police officers were called to the area of Broadway and Heather Street to help transit security in removing the man who had allegedly started […]
St George UK December 8 2019 A woman has been arrested in connection with an incident in St George in which a security guard was run over. A black Audi drove over the victim, a man in his 20s, in Church Road last night (December 5) before leaving the scene. He had been attempting to detain […]